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firearms safety
In firearms, a safety or safety catch is a mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling.
Safeties can generally be divided into subtypes such as internal safeties (which typically do not receive input from the user) and external safeties (which typically allow the user to give input, for example, toggling a lever from "on" to "off" or something similar). Sometimes these are called "passive" and "active" safeties (or "automatic" and "manual"), respectively.
Firearms with the ability to allow the user to select various fire modes may have separate switches for safety and for mode selection (e.g. Thompson submachine gun) or may have the safety integrated with the mode selector as a fire selector with positions from safe to semi-automatic to full-automatic fire (e.g. M16).
Some firearms manufactured after the late 1990s include mandatory integral locking mechanisms that must be deactivated by a unique key before the gun can be fired. These integral locking mechanisms are intended as child-safety devices during unattended storage of the firearm—not as safety mechanisms while carrying. Other devices in this category are trigger locks, bore locks, and gun safes.
New shooter, about to go to a public lands range with some friends where no RO will be. I expect there to be other people there, and was wondering what type of etiquette there is when putting up and changing targets? Do I yell out sieze fire? What are the unwritten rules when out there aside...
If anyone needs the "Firearms Safety Class" certificate to comply with I-1639, contact me and I will do it for no charge! I can do it over the phone, course lasts about 10-15 minutes...and mail or email the certificate.
Did the course for the Carson area gun club members this past...